Day in photos: March 28, 2013

Flames chew through the Taim Ecological Station in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The fire that started Tuesday in southern Brazil had reached approximately 1,400 acres and would likely continue since there’s no way to reach the area by water or land.

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International Space Station crew member, US astronaut Chris Cassidy, gets suited up before launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome.

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Runoff from a broken water main floods a Hoboken, NJ, street as construction workers scramble to fix the problem. Two separate water main breaks in Hoboken have cut off water to some residents.

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An Indian Sikh devotee bathes in the holy water tank in celebration of ‘Hola Mohalla’ at The Golden Temple in Amritsar.

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A student gestures faces down a row of riot police during a demonstration against a planned overhaul of the Greek university system, which would merge or close a number of higher education facilties in the new academic year.

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Here’s a closer look at the massive landslide that damaged one home and isolated or threatened more than 30 others near Coupeville, Wash., Wednesday.

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A Bangladeshi Hindu man blows colored powder into the air during Holi — the festival of color — celebrations in Dhaka.

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NFL hopeful “Leon Sandcastle” — actually it’s Deion Sanders — holds court with members of the media at the Kansas City Chiefs training facility in Kansas City, Mo. Sanders’ would-be rookie character is the current face of the NFL Network.

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Shirwane, an Indian Lion, growls as her six-week-old cubs are approached at the Budapest Zoo in Hungary.

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An employee is seen framed by spools at a textile mill in Jiujiang, China.

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A student protester runs from a police water cannon during a clash at a rally in Santiago. Protesters are demanding changes to the public state education system.

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Pope Francis kisses the foot of a prisoner at Casal del Marmo youth prison in Rome. For the first time, two young women were included in the12 whose feet were washed and kissed during the Holy Thursday tradition.